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津

jīn

ferry

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 聿 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

聿 sound component

聿  Sound component

yù

  

writing brush

Evolution

津 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
津 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
津 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
津 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

津  

jīn

ferry; saliva; ford; sweat; a ferry crossing; a ford (river crossing); abbr. for Tianjin 天津

Most common words with 津
Freq.
Word
Meaning

天津

Tianjin, a municipality in northeast China, abbr. 津

津

saliva

牛津

Oxford (city in England)

津贴

allowance

天津市

Tianjin, a municipality in northeast China, abbr. 津

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]i[n]

tsin

jīn

ford (n.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.8283% of movies

2305th most common character in movies

1353rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+6D25

Shuowen

“津，水渡也。从水，聲。，古文从舟，从淮。”


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